On Tue, Jun 25, 2013 at 2:28 AM, Tim Connors
<tconnors AT rather.puzzling DOT org> wrote:
>
> I can unrecommend ZFS in backuppc.  My own backuppc/ZFS fileserver crashes
> about once a week (to the point where I built an automatic watchdog for
> it), and every single lockup reported on the zfsonlinux
> mailing list is due to a relatively (but not huge - 300G seems to be the
> typical size) large rsync.  It just doesn't cope with memory pressure yet,
> and an rsync run seems to interact badly with cache.

It's kind of harsh to blame ZFS for problems if you know you didn't
give it enough memory....   But, there are other reasons to not want
your backups on the same host.

--
   Les Mikesell
      lesmikesell AT gmail DOT com

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